Adobe buys Pixmantec/Rawshooter

cmason · June 26, 2006

Yep, Adobe buys Pixmantec. RSP will no longer exist, though sounds like RSE will still be available..yeah!

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0606/06062602adobebuypixmantec.asp

Adobe Further Extends Leadership in Digital Photography Raw File Workflows
Adobe Acquires Technology Assets of Pixmantec ApS

In a brief statement Adobe has announced that it has purchased the 'technology assets' of Pixmantec, the Danish company behind the RawShooter raw workflow and conversion application. Adobe states that this acquisition "strengthens Adobe's leadership position in raw processing" and that that Pixmantec's raw processing technology will be integrated into Lightroom and other Adobe products. RawShooter Premium will be discontinued although the Essential edition will continue to be available and support for existing RawShooter customers will be available from Adobe.

Tom K. · June 26, 2006

Adobe buys RawShooter!!!!
Read it and weep :cry

http://www.pixmantec.com/company/adobe.asp

Richard · June 26, 2006

Tom K. wrote:

Read it and weep :cry

http://www.pixmantec.com/company/adobe.asp

Sorry to hear this. I have been using RSE, as my computer is too wimpy to run ACR in anything other than geologic time. I also love the user interface. Hopefully Adobe will adopt some of the better ideas, not just swallow the competition. Well, I suppose I'll just keep using it till I get a new machine.

Regards,

ziggy53 · June 26, 2006

cmason wrote:

Yep, Adobe buys Pixmantec. RSP will no longer exist, though sounds like RSE will still be available..yeah!...

I am not so sure:

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-7895-8434

"RawShooter | premium will be discontinued as soon as distributor obligations are met; as of this writing, it's still available for download and purchase from the Pixmantec web site as well. RawShooter | essentials will remain available only until shortly after Adobe's Lightroom is out of beta and is officially released. No further camera compatibility updates are planned for either RawShooter version, and technical support for RawShooter will be primarily or exclusively through a section in the Adobe user-to-user forums starting sometime in the near future."

I found one other site with a similar statement.

Rats!

ziggy53

DJ-S1 · June 26, 2006

Existing Pixmantec customers... will be provided with an upgrade path to the Adobe digital imaging product family.

Great, 10% off the $500+ CS2. Just what I purchased an $80 package for in the first place.

TylerW · June 27, 2006

I tried using RSE, but I never got anything mroe than loads of creepy looking artifacts in my images.

I wonder if they'll be using this technology in Lightroom.

marlinspike · June 27, 2006

You must have just tried the first release of RSE. By the time RSP came around, it was the best raw processor there is (I have it). It's too bad there will be no more. I don't blame Adobe nearly as much as I blame the Pixmantec people.

colourbox · June 27, 2006

TylerW wrote:

I wonder if they'll be using this technology in Lightroom.

That's what the press release says.

Now Adobe employees are starting to blog about it:
http://blogs.adobe.com/bridge/2006/06/adobe_acquires.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2006/06/brain_trust_pixmantec.html

First blog says it will really impact Bridge. That should be interesting since Bridge is so clunky at the moment.

mercphoto · June 27, 2006

colourbox wrote:

First blog says it will really impact Bridge. That should be interesting since Bridge is so clunky at the moment.

Agreed. Clunky and pig slow. And I've found Lightroom to be a much better looking application, but I've found it to be really slow too. 'Tis a shame.

Its as if Adobe does not know how to make a fast photo browser.

Shay Stephens · June 27, 2006

Adobe is going the way of Microsoft. Very soon they will be untrustable too. I'm tellin' ya, that is why I am trying to work out a non-Microsoft, non-Adobe solution now while I have the luxury of time.

Details likely next month.

colourbox · June 27, 2006

mercphoto wrote:

Its as if Adobe does not know how to make a fast photo browser.

Maybe that's why they decided to buy the people that do. The second blog post talks more about how the RawShooter engineers are now going to help out on Adobe stuff, not just about how a pile of code was bought. That can only be good for Bridge then. Assuming they weren't buying them to get rid of the competition.

gus · June 27, 2006

Thats a shame for people whom are on a tight budget with their photography. I always reconed i couldnt really tell the diff in quality or speed with RS or CS2..sure no where near the control but for a free download it was a great programme.

System · June 28, 2006

bibble labs offering rsp owners $30 discount on their software due to adobe buyout-

http://www.bibblelabs.com/press/pr20060627.html

george

System · June 28, 2006

you move this two days later and bury it in news and events when it's directly related to post processing?-

I guess it's your show--- but two days later?-

DavidTO · June 28, 2006

gefillmore wrote:

you move this two days later and bury it in news and events when it's directly related to post processing?-

I guess it's your show--- but two days later?-

Sometimes we're a bit slow...you know, life, family, work all gets in the way. And when those things don't get in the way, it could always be the other kind of slow, as in "not the sharpest tool in the shed."

I think news is the right place for this, BTW.

System · June 28, 2006

yeah, that's why all the posters were wondering why it was in photoshop shenanigans-

btw, I'll take the 'why two days later' part back-

ps and I've never said anything about anybody being 'not the sharpest tool in the shed' unless it was about myself-

I've said before you guys do a good job-I just disagree with the move-

patch29 · June 28, 2006

gefillmore wrote:

I've said before you guys do a good job-I just disagree with the move-

I actually merged two threads on the same topic from different forums. The topic and first threads deal with the Adobe purchase of a company, not the use of Rawshooter, so I felt it fit better in the news forum.

DavidTO · June 28, 2006

gefillmore wrote:

ps and I've never said anything about anybody being 'not the sharpest tool in the shed' unless it was about myself-

That's exactly what I was doing, referring to myself (well, the other mods, too, but that's OK). I never for one second thought you were calling us stupid. I got it. You disagreed. No problem.

patch29 · June 28, 2006

Shay Stephens wrote:

Adobe is going the way of Microsoft. Very soon they will be untrustable too. I'm tellin' ya, that is why I am trying to work out a non-Microsoft, non-Adobe solution now while I have the luxury of time.

Details likely next month.

I have been moving away from MS Office to Open Office (actually NeoOffice for the mac) and I have very happy with it, easy to install and use, and best of all no install keys to enter or big price to pay.

I hope Adobe does not follow MS. I really like Adobe products, but I will look for other resources if they get to big. I already see issues with how they bundle the Creative Suite, forcing the buyer to always upgrade all the programs. I am glad I still have stand alone Adobe products. It is too bad that they took out Macromedia, one less competitor.

System · June 28, 2006

DavidTO wrote:

That's exactly what I was doing, referring to myself (well, the other mods, too, but that's OK). I never for one second thought you were calling us stupid. I got it. You disagreed. No problem.

I felt like the implication, just from someone reading it, would be that that was what I was saying-

I have nothing but the highest regard for you, david-

and yes, no problem-

System · June 28, 2006

if I may repeat myself, since this post got lost whilst I was ranting:

<TABLE class=tborder id=post334088 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width="100%" align=center border=0><TBODY><TR vAlign=top><TD class=alt1 id=td_post_334088>bibble labs offering rsp owners $30 discount on their software due to adobe buyout-

http://www.bibblelabs.com/press/pr20060627.html

george
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ziggy53 · June 28, 2006

gefillmore wrote:

if I may repeat myself, since this post got lost whilst I was ranting:

<table class="tborder" id="post334088" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td class="alt1" id="td_post_334088">bibble labs offering rsp owners $30 discount on their software due to adobe buyout-

http://www.bibblelabs.com/press/pr20060627.html

george
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I think Shay is a Bibble convert, and he is working with Linux as well. I wouldn't mind migrating to something faster and more stable than Windows, and if it costs less too ...<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/thumb.gif" border="0" alt="" >

Show us how Shay!

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=33775

ziggy53

claudermilk · June 29, 2006

I am as well (was actually an early adopter of RSE and went with Bibble instead). They just released 4.8 recently & have been on an amazingly active update cycle all year.

I know there is at least one user over on their forums that is running it on all three OS' so can help with migration.

Adobe buys Pixmantec/Rawshooter

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